Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Great Britain

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Great Britain. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 10 Aug 2026

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08/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:39:25

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
3	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
4	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
17	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
29	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
34	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
35	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
39	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
40	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
41	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
42	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
43	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
45	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
46	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
47	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
48	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	203	ART19	37
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
51	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
53	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
54	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
58	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
59	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
60	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
61	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
62	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	64	Captivate	69
63	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
64	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
65	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
66	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
67	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
71	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
72	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
73	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
76	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
83	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
84	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
85	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
86	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
87	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
88	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
89	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
91	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
92	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
93	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
94	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
95	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
96	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
97	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
98	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
99	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
100	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

The podcast landscape in Great Britain is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Great Britain.
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